David Caruso (CSI: Miami) Launches Lexicon Digital"CSI: Miami actor David Caruso has joined forces with two streaming industry veterans, Nils Lahr - one of the original architects of Windows Media - and Frank Nein, to launch a new online video initiative, Lexicon Digital."

Blinx "Red Label" API Enables Video Search"Through a program called Red Label, the company is opening its application programming interface (API) so other sites can pipe video search queries to Blinkx, retrieve the results, and publish them,..."

YouTube Tests Live Streaming Platform"Starting at 8:00 a.m. PT, we will begin a limited trial of a new live streaming platform in conjunction with four of our partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood."

YouTube Now Offers Longer Videos To Selected Users"Just click the 'Upload' button at the top of the site to see if your account qualifies. And remember, if you're uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, go into 'My Videos' and delete the old video before uploading it again."

Dec 10, 2010

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YouTube Announces Live Streaming Trial Roll OutToday we're announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page, where you can always find the most compelling live events happening on YouTube and add events to your calendar.[br][br]Today, we'll also start gradually rolling out our live streaming beta platform, which will allow certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing to stream live content on YouTube. The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the months ahead. In order to ensure a great live stream viewing experience, we'll roll this offering out incrementally over time.

Apr 8, 2011

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YouTube Transcoding Videos Into Open Media WebM Format...all new videos uploaded to YouTube are now transcoded into WebM. WebM is an open media file format for video and audio on the web.[br][br]As we work to transcode more videos into WebM, we hope to reduce the technical incompatibilities that prevent you from accessing video while improving the overall online video landscape.[br][br]Transcoding all new video uploads into WebM is an important first step, and we're also working to transcode our entire video catalog to WebM.

W3C Will Go Ahead With Encrypted Media Extensions Web Video Technology"We should we have one Web with as much commonality as possible where one is able to access free content as well as protected content. The other approach is to say if someone wants to have DRM content, that should be its own walled garden, cordoned off. We don't want the Web to be a bunch of cordoned-off apps."